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Last week we spent some time looking at how hope has come for everyone. This week we are looking at how peace has come for everyone! We talked last week about how Jesus came as a hope for the gentiles. Michele Ivans brought up a point after the message that I really didn’t drive home as sometimes we…

Christmas Unwrapped Unwrapping the Virgin Birth Introduction: This morning we are going to start a teaching series entitled “Christmas Unwrapped” This morning we are going to begin by unwrapping the virgin birth. Let’s start this teaching by asking one simple question. Why was it necessary for Christ…

A. Rapport for the time Remembering to Forget How are we to move forward as a christian in God’s kingdom? Sanctification by the Spirit of God in our life to live a life that is pleasing before the Lord. B. Reading of the text Read Passage... C. Review of the text 7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not…

Introduction Paul look into the mirror of the Word to what manner of man he is. His reflections in the Word reveals the desires of his heart. The desires of Paul’s heart is rooted in loving God above all else and loving his neighbor as himself. We see Paul’s desire was that he would be accursed if it…

Review Introduction Tanakh Brit Hadoshah 18 According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, Fury to His adversaries, Recompense to His enemies; The coastlands He will fully repay. 5 From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language,…

Daniel 3:16–28 (NIV84) 16 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. 17 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will rescue us from your hand, O king. 18 But…

Intro . It’s so good to see you this morning. No one is here by accident. Isn’t God amazing that he would bring us together like this. If he brought us together then I believe that He has something to say to us this morning. We are in the series titled The Fruit of the Spirit . These are character values…

If you were to stand before God, and He were to ask you this question, “ Why should I let you into Heaven ,” how would you respond? How would you answer? How Would You Answer? Through out the years, I have posed that situation/that question to numbers of people and, in response, I have received three…

TEXT: GALATIANS 5:22 | THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT : LOVE INTRO ILLUSTRATION : For years I had gone to my friend Jeremiah’s house. His family had an old farmhouse style home with ruff cut wood floors and exposed beams. When you walked through the door of there house you were greeted with a small table and…

The Love of a Dog Do you have a pet? Does your pet love you? Nice. I want to tell you a story about a dog’s love for his master, because it can teach us about God’s love for us. In 1858, a man named John Gray was buried in old Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh, Scotland. His grave levelled by the hand…

Introduction Romans explains everything 1-5 life outside of Christ, 6— life for those in Christ 1–5: Sinful world. Out there, gets out of hand. Perversion celebrated. Dobbs took mask off—Melania, Amendment 3. Why? Romans 1 Not just out there—in my heart. Don’t love God, don’t want to submit to His rule.…

People often ask, and if we are honest, we all want to be able to know the Will of God. One of the problems is that, we, our culture, think we are smart. If you think about it. I have seen Nuclear Bombs detonated when they were tested. I remember when we first sent a person into space and then landed…

Luke 7:11-17 highlights Jesus' compassion and power as He raises a widow's son in Nain, bringing hope to a seemingly hopeless situation. It encourages us to trust in God's presence during our darkest moments and to allow His transformative power to work in our lives, reminding us that Jesus meets us exactly where we are, regardless of our circumstances.

God’s Sovereign Will for Creation Romans 8:18 . 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. What does Paul mean by “the sufferings of this present time”? He is talking about the sufferings of the curse of sin in our lives.…

A Defiled Heart Made Clean Sermon Goal: That hearers confess that their hearts produce nothing but evil but that by the Gospel God creates in them new, clean hearts that desire to keep his commandments. “Just follow your heart.” Or, “Their heart was in the right place.” Undoubtedly you’ve heard these…

Introduction Good morning all. We have been working through Paul’s letter to Timothy as he charges him to set right some issues that had developed in the church. He sent Timothy a letter of encouragement and correction for the church to conduct themselves in a righteous and God honoring way. One of the…

Exodus 20:1-17 Hebrews 13:5 We are finishing up our series with the last of the Ten Commandments today. As we read through all of the ten commandments just earlier, we can see how this may be the perfect cap to the commandments. If we will obey this one commandment, we may be able to keep all the rest…

Song of ascents – songs that helped them prepare and re-orient themselves to the purpose of the journey and the expectation of the destination. Sometimes it reminded them of the past that helped shaped their perspective on the future; to remind them of who God was, what He had done, and what He could…

The Habit of Solitude Raise your hand if you have a difficult time slowing your mind. Now raise your hand if you didn’t hear what I said because your mind was somewhere else. As amazing of a person as Amy is, this is something that we are both guilty of. In fact, the most common question we ask each…

We come once more in our careful study of word of God given through the apostle Paul in the eighth chapter of his letter to the Romans, where we have been studying these last several weeks the grand statements of the gospel to be found in verses 3 and 4 , For what the Law could not do, weak as it was…

Paul, having never been in Rome but desiring to use it as something of a “base of operations” from which he would travel on to Spain by way of them (16:28) in a sense similar to the way Antioch had been for him previously. And so he has spent considerable time to remind these believers of the full and…

Scriptures 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin…

1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, 2 who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. 3 For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He…

The Apostle Peter · Who wrote it? Peter wrote you a letter. Peter the Apostle We all love Peter because we all relate to his ups and downs, his failures and victories. Peter is the one who said, “You are the son of God.” He said, “I’ll never let them take you.” He walked on water, performed miracles,…

Introduction As we look at this passage today it is important to remember Paul's goal in life. Paul was a Jewish zealot. To the point where he was having Christians stoned for believing in Jesus as the Christ. When he had his encounter with Jesus and something like scales fell from his eyes, he could…